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Actually kind of crazy how bad of a day it was for software stocks despite the QQQ only being down -0.19%. IGV (expanded software ETF) down -2.9%.
IGV/software stocks looking delicious here
Wow, IGV (Expanded software ETF) -2% today.
Remember this if nothing else, the goal of the market is to take as much money from as many people as possible in the shortest period of time. Keep in mind PLTR had government support and is an AI ticker it will go to 750 longer term but will pull back. Think AI Energy stocks needed for all this AI growth and also IGV is good but how young are you?
I would wait to see how much we go up between now and the 2nd trading day of January that is the Santa Claus Rally. You may get a bounce up on some of these. If you list them for me again here I will look at the charts tomorrow. Keep in mind you never want everything in one area and bitcoin is very volatile. I am bullish on AI Energy myself and AI in general and the ETF for that is IGV but I bought it at 85 and I think it is too high now. I also think SPY, QQQ are too high. The buy on SPY was on pullback to 650 and now it is back up at 690. If you dollar cost average you put a set amount each month and no timing. Make sense? VOO is a van guard fund for investing do research. Listen to a show. Tfnn.com is a good site and TTG on you tube is good Sunday night. good luck
That was a big mistake as even though bitcoin will eventually go to 125000, not all of the tickers will move at the same time. Bitcoin has separate categories, you have the miners as one category. Then you have a grouping that includes COiN MSTR. You should never hold ETF’s which are 2 and 3 times for longer term as they are not a good vehicle for that but are good when you expect a momentum move for a day trade. It is important to learn and to diversify the portfolio into different areas. As an example. I have some QQQ and some SPY and some IGV all ETF’ and I dollar value average at a 40/30/20 percent and I keep ten percent cash for a major pullback buy like when we tanked in October. I rebalance based on quarterly basis to help PRCL enrages about the same. This is in an IRA account. If it was in an account with taxes I do not make changes unless I have held for over a year. On Bitcoin, I still think it can test 75000 and it really needs to get back over 90000 to be bullish. We will see what happens. I do not buy Bitcoin but rather trade miners and other related tickers like CLSK, CORZ, CIFR, HOOD and others in Bitcoin strength. Also it is common for a stock even bullish in an uptrend to pullback 30 percent before moving higher as nothing goes straight up.
No, I don't buy Puts or anything like that. The only "protection" I use is to look at them every day or three. If they lose half I sell. Or if the stock "rolls over" such that today it's worth less than it was a month ago, I sell. I had to do that with IGV today. Check out its: [6-month](https://imgur.com/a/DamESUu), and [1-month](https://imgur.com/a/PFmT8iC) trends. See how it had a nice trend going? I first bought a LEAPS Call on it on 7/22, when the 3-month lookback showed a nice trend. But shortly after, it decided to go down some. It never hit my "same price today as it was a month ago" metric, so I let it ride. Then it started going up again, reaching a higher high. But then you see it "rolling over" and heading down. Yesterday that 1-month lookback number was slightly positive, so I let it ride. But today it turned negative (the stock was lower today than a month ago), so I closed the position. So I think if you stay on top of them like that you'll be fine.
A lesson I've had to continually re-learn over the years is that ETFs are better than equities. Based on your mix, I think you may know that too. But there's still something about those high-flying tickers that draws us to them like a moth to a flame. But I'm done with them for good this time. Too much"single-issue" risk. A missed earnings, an accounting scandal, an ill-timed tweet by the CEO: the stock drops 10% or more. With "basket of stocks" ETFs, you don't have that single-ticker exposure. Because of course a single company might only be 5 or 10% of the ETF. Now, you can have "systemic" risk that affects everything in the ETF, and that's why I avoid the ones that are particularly vulnerable to that: like cannabis and crypto. **With the leverage of LEAPS Calls** *we don't need ETFs to go up much before we're making a great profit.* Right now I've been loving the precious metals and their miners: GLD, GDX/J, SLV, SILJ, XME - there are others. Then SMH, MAGS (there's your Mag7 exposure), IGV, & IWM. IWM is actually a great example of what I look for in a chart: see how smooth it is? Up 20% in the last 6 months, and 2.7% in the last month. Its 444DTE 200C at 81-delta is giving Delta-adjusted leverage of 3.5x. So you take that 2.7% and multiply it by 3.5 to get *9% in the next month* if the trend holds. That's 'enough' return, isn't it? That's why I like ETFs. Take care.
Cybersecurity is a longterm sure thing, but individual companies are not. I have had the WCBR and CIBR ETFs, as well as broader software IGV, but now I'm getting my largest cybersecurity action from the SPRX ETF, which holds ZS, NET, CRWD, PANW and RBRK, about 23% of the ETF total in cybersecurity. If I had to go with a dedicated cyber ETF now I'd pick CIBR.
I do think going 100% into tech will beat the market over a long period if you can stick with it through extended bear markets. However, I would recommend tech ETFs like FTEC, SMH, IGV, QTUM, maybe even CQQQ, for 50% of your portfolio. With the other 50% try a momentum strategy with single stocks, because the top growers will change year after year,decade after decade. You might also consider BTC and ETH which have an even larger potential for growth if crypto stabilizes as a true asset class. But only do any of these things if you’re trying to get rich at the risk of underperformance, which could be significant. If you stick to your current portfolio long term it is guaranteed to underperform because companies come and go, trends change, winners become losers. But the people who make the highest return are those that go all in on a single factor that happens to be the right factor, but also have the lowest return if they bet on the wrong factor.
No, I don't track slippage. By which I think you mean trading costs, and also getting fills on the bad side of B/A spreads. Trading costs these days are so low as to almost be negligible. At least, I ignore them in my everyday thinking. But here's a check-up on that assumption, as I'm going through my positions today selling some new CCs, rolling some CCs up and out, and rolling some long Calls just up (mainly) to take some profit out of them: I sold a few shares of something I foolishly had, and those are absolutely **free at Schwab.** Selling new CCs, I noted that I'm paying **0.40 +0.01 per contract, so 0.41.** Forty is low because I do enough volume with Schwab that I asked them to lower from the initial 0.65 and they did. And note that those aren't "option dollars," that's **literally 41 cents.** In one fill today I received just 0.33, $33 real dollars, and 40 cents is 1.2%. That *is* a bit high, but it's due to the low premium collected (that was IGV, just 2 weeks out). In a GLD fill, 14DTE, I received 1.03 / $103. Divide 0.40 by that to get just 0.4%. That's **fees**; then there's the question about **fills**. I found these situations today in real trades: **GLD**: With B/A at 1.00/1.04, I put in an order to SELL at **1.03** and it filled. That was on the 'good' side for me of the implied Midpoint of 1.02. **IGV**: 0.25 / 0.35 implies a Mid of 0.30, but I was filled when I offered a CC for sale at **0.33**. **EXC**: 0.35 / 0.50 implies Mid of 0.42 if you're selling. This one was fun because normally I would've put in an order at 0.45 and been happy if it filled there (because that was the next 5c step down from 0.50). But I put in my order at **0.48** and it took it! In all those cases, those were my initial offers; I didn't have to waste any time walking them down, because they filled right away. I was a bit surprised. But if I'm able to be in the market real-time, I ALWAYS offer to buy or sell at a price that's better for me than Midpoint. If I'm loading up trades overnight or the weekend, then I off Midpoint, or sometimes a little 'worse' if I really want the trade to fill. So no, I don't think there's much 'slippage'. If I've misunderstood what you meant, please advise. Cheers!
IGV has underperformed chips since May, my thesis is we see a rotation into some of these names https://preview.redd.it/uzbn1av33gmf1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=28d1e0dad9e69284da599db0dc0bb99cfad3f828
I do a multi-factor portfolio with a mix of momentum, quality, tech and size/value. SPHQ, SPMO, XMMO, IDMO, IGV, SMH, AVMV, AVUV, AVDV, LVHI, even split between funds. 20% quality, 30% size/value, 20% tech, 30% momentum. 70% US 30% international. 60% large cap, 20% mid cap, 20% small cap.
Bought it today after hours at 391.75. We’ll have to see. It’s going to be a long term position for me. I’ve owned it as part of the IGV etf, but having sold that ETF 6 weeks ago I used that money to buy CRWD after hours.
I second u/DennyDalton's recommendation of buying high-delta LEAPS Calls on companies or ETFs you like. Do you think NVDA will be higher in 2 or 3 years? TSM? SOFI? WMT? How about ETFs like XLK or IGV? Maybe gold via IAU or GLD? If you do, then buy a Call at 80-delta or higher, and a year or more out. 2 years is better, and 3y better still if those are offered. You'd still be investing in, say, NVDA, but with a *stock substitute*. A 2.3-year out 80-delta NVDA Call (the Dec'27 145C at 69.95 Midpoint) would give you 2.1x leverage to Nvidia. So if you like the last 6 months' 40% gain, you'll like it even more when your long Call goes up 84%. Do you sell Covered Calls now? You can sell a Call against a Call you own. It's a Diagonal Call Spread, also called the Poor Man's Covered Call when the long leg is at least a year out. Sell Calls at about 30-delta, about 30 days out. Buy to close when they've lost half their value. Or roll up and out if challenged. PMCCs are all I do now, using the leverage of LEAPS Calls to amplify moves of stocks & ETFs. The CCs are gravy on top. Have fun!
You might want to do VT. There is good reason to worry about the American economy. However, China is way worse off than the US and its economy is going to get even worse before it gets better. As for risky investments like bitcoin I personally do 5% into FBTC and have a lot of money in tech ETFs like SMH and IGV, as well as some single stocks. My PLTR stock is up 120% due to buying it in the dip in April. But once you divert away from a one fund portfolio it opens up a can of worms and gets you into optimizing the perfect portfolio with the best chance of a high return. This will add a lot of stress that you might not want in your life and could all be for nothing if your investments underperform longterm. So choose VTI or VT if you want to sleep well at night knowing that you’re pretty much guaranteed a fair return or you can go all in on a high risk portfolio that *could* significantly outperform over the long run at the cost of stress and anxiety (unless you have the stomach for it). If you want advice on something like that I can give you tips but I recommend starting with VTI or VT until you get a feel for your risk tolerance.
You're welcome. I hope you do read and understand it. And since you're open to "using ETF's that people have recommended," have a look at Utilities, XLU, and Tech-Software, IGV. Also IAU, although gold has been flat since April. With any or all of those, work out how much leverage you'd get from buying a Call at 80-delta a year or more out. (And adjust that for Delta.) Then look up how much, in dollars, each ETF has gone up in the last month: if they did that again, how much would the Call be worth? And then what percentage gain would that be? That should open your eyes to the beauty of DITM long Calls. Then for bonus points, find the Call to sell at 30-delta or less and at least 30 days out. What is its Premium? That's how many dollars, times 100, you'd get paid for selling it. And what's the ROI on that? (Premium over cost of the long Call.) Then annualize that: divide by the short Call's DTE and multiply by 365. If you do the math right, the numbers should pretty much amaze you. Let me know if/when you have questions.
Puts on IGV, SMH, and calls on QID. All expire 8/15. I have time but getting reaaly effin nervous.
I haven’t touched VOO since around $510. I bought QQQM and IGV during the tariff dip. Already trimmed the top on my NASDAQ— will probably keep what I have and add to it eventually, but IGV can go. I’ll take the near 30% profits and redistribute. I’m more interested in value and quality right now. The only pure tech names that I am hanging onto I’ve held for years— Google and TSM.
Look up IGV holdings and do some research.
That's largely a solid group of companies, but you would do well to explore ETFs and see what a mix of holdings you can get with those. For example, IGV and PWRD give you significant exposure to a good chunk of your list, as well as related companies.
For tech ETFs, I like FTEC for general tech, SMH for semiconductors, and IGV for software. I do think just doing ETFs is better just in case stronger companies come along. But I personally like investing in the top 1-3 holdings of SMH and IGV short term. NVDA has beaten SMH significantly every year for the past decade. I’ll likely keep investing in that for 5-10 years and then move the money to SMH eventually.
I started investing in my mid to late 40s as well. Since I don’t have a lot of time I don’t invest conservatively at all (I’ll either have the money in retirement or I won’t) so I avoid bonds, high dividends and large value. I invest heavily into tech because it has doubled the performance of the SP 500 over the last 30 years. Tech is very volatile but if you can get extra cash and invest when it’s down it will have even better. I have more faith that it will outperform everything else over the next 20 years. A very risky portfolio that has been recommended to me: 20% SPHQ, 20% SPMO, 15% XMMO, 15% FTEC, 15% IGV, 15% SMH. This will cover you in all phases of the market cycle but you’ll be betting on US outperforming international long term. I think that’s a fair bet because if international outperforms over the next 20 years you’re screwed unless you invest 100% international. So bet one way or the other. This portfolio will either get you the returns you need to retire in 20 years or it will do poorly. But in my opinion some money is the same as no money if you can’t retire on it, so it’s worth the gamble. At or near retirement if you have enough money built up, switch to 25% AVIV, 25% SCHD, 25% VOO, 10% SPMO, 10% FTEC, 5% XMMO. I’m sure 99% of people on here would disagree with me, but most of them have the luxury of taking a more conservative route and coming out on top no matter what happens because they either have more time or money to invest. Any other suggestion will work fine too if you have at least $2500 to invest every month.
Yeah the income funds are better if you come into a ton of money and want to collect dividends as extra income or if you’re retired and want to live off of dividends. But you have a lot of time for investing in more growth. Personally I am tech heavy with FTEC, SMH, and IGV.
Bot Uber, IGV and Meta today. We’ll see. It was software or Costco and I made a poor choice. Not the first time.
META ded. MSFT ded, PLTR ded, AMD ded, IGV ded
That's the thing, even a '26 contract will lose value faster than holding shares. I have a shit-load of leaps on NVDA, AVGO, VST, HOOD, UAL, IGV .. you name it lmao. When the deepseek news came out, my leaps on VST, AVGO, NVDA evaporated all their gains (went from +20% to -50%) in a day, they have since came back and I am again in the green. But, T is just too much.
Take a look at IGV top holdings for some ideas. Right now I’m probably most bullish on CRM and NOW for agentic AI play.
I’m deciding between going physical data center buildout or software for the next AI narrative. It looks like software is taking over. IGV is an interesting ETF with some of those names.
Bought VRT, IGV and COST. 🤷♂️
Here's some stock picks for ya. These will always make money WM- the dumpster company. Hardly a sexy stock I know but it's a great company IGV- its a software etf Brk-a - it's warren Buffett. I mean come on So those are my picks for low-risk equities that tend to beat what the banks are offering some years by a hell of a lot but yeah these are super solid and kinda boring in a good way Now, here goes a sexy stock. A moonshot in an emerging market. TMC the metals company deep sea mining of nickel, cobalt, copper etc. Brand new industry. When that moons I'll move those profits into the group I mentioned and go back to looking for another moonshot Good luck my fellow disabled American may all your trades moon
IGV and SMH charts for the last few months, looks like money is rotated from semis to software. 
Gains like NVDA had last year in the coming year for PLTR. Trying to find other AI software companies and couldn’t find anyone of similar ilk to PLTR. I did buy the IGV etf to play a large sample of them, but PLTR is going to be up big in 2025.
I had a quick look at IGV. It seems to tick all the boxes for what you're looking for. Regarding the selection process, they track a benchmark made by the S&P, so this is not an active fund. Have a look at the holdings. It's quite spread across 112 different companies. As any of these sector etf, you'd be better off investing in a couple of the market leaders. It returned only 25% YTD. Not bad, but QQQ returned 28%.
Good observation on the divergence between software and chips. Trump’s tariffs definitely hit the chipmakers harder, which is why software’s been in favor—less production risk involved. That said, the chips are undervalued right now, especially names like NVDA and AMD. If those tariffs don’t cause too much damage, the chips could bounce back. But, I’m with you on the software plays for long-term holds—IGV and HACK look solid. Still, I’d keep a close eye on how the market reacts to those upcoming product launches and tariffs in January.
Wide trailing stop. Only sell some when you can find better returns in other stocks. When it becomes a large percentage of your portfolio, trim at every new highs, and diversify into something else. Like IGV.
On a serious note, buy the IGV etf. Got a mix of Ai software companies. I just picked up more after trimming some PLTR, SMCI, ACHR, RIVN gains. Also XLK, NUKZ, and BUG etfs are some recent acquisitions.
Trying to find a good s&p index fund that doesn’t have the Mag 7. I have had large positions in these for a long time. Diversifying out of their gains is a regular task and looking for an easier way. Just bought some PAVE and IGV etfs. Bought a bunch of individual stocks farther down the spy holdings list. Other ideas? Oh, and I’ll probably buy some rddt tomorrow.
AMD will do great over the next couple years. In ten years it will be way up. Good chips are needed in so many things. Will have Ai in fridges at some point. Your coffee make will be able to make coffee based on the way you tell it to. There will be lots of companies designing and making chios for all of these “things”. Being in some of these stocks now is a goose that lays golden eggs. Companies deploying Ai software is also a good spot to be in right now. Recently found the IGV (tech software etf) to buy into a range of those companies now. The XLK (technology sector) is also a good etf. Also bought into NUKZ (nuclear power etf). Totally trying to find companies that are going to benefit real soon (1-2 years). Going broad because trying to pick one, or the best one, this early would be impossible.
This company has always traded premium compared to its competition. With the new CEO, revenue and products are getting a new life. I believe company is uniquely positioned to leverage the AI boom as investments shift more towards the software sector. As such the whole software sector is gaining momentum and I have moved some of my $ not only into SNOW but to other software names (CRM NOW NTNX META). IGV is a good indicator of the momentum in software space.
you know some kids from sweeden made a reusable rocket with a $250k budget, right? the value of the data will only ever decrease as the number of entities supplying it increases. not that the company wont make money, but im not sure id expect a first-mover advantage, and for that risk reward, Im buying IGV, PLTR and NFLX.
SMH money seems to be flowing into IGV. 
Well, IGV also was stuck from January and had a really good month now. Maybe semis are taking a break for few months and then they will be back beating records?
I just buy calls 3-4 months away on popular sector ETFs like IGV, XLI, and SPY on red days. I average in on calls on consecutive red days, 50% of portfolio is cash, rest of portfolio is csah to not be blown away on something crazy.
I shifted my GOOGL cash into IGV, VGT, DE, and KBH. I’m not super comfortable picking individual chip and AI-related software companies so I went with index funds, as software has been overlooked. I jumped on DE a week ago as with the expected farm labor shortage and automation will be in demand. I chose KBH as with a P/E of 10, no shortage of demand for housing, expected lower interest rates, Trump willingness to streamline regulations and make land available for building. Seems like an easy choice.
My trade thesis latter half of this year, and going into first half of next year: By looking at TSM's manufacuring numbers and Nvidea's call, it is clear that Hopper and Blackwell are INCREDIBLE, and demand is so extreme that they can't get enough supply. So, we invest in data centres specific to helping these superchips acheiving their optimal performance. This means, a ton of VRT-like names that provide high-quality sulotions to data centres, and further, names like TLN,VST, as we need all the energyin the world to power these damn data centres. Carbon negative sources of eneregy to get those sweet tax credits. Then, we see firms like GEV that provide solutions to help power companies optimize their performance. Then, software names that fuuuurther optimize these data centres, like names under the IGV ETF, think NOW, ORCL..etc. So, in short, every primary, secondary and tertiary industry and firm that are helping these superchips and data centres. Thank you for coming to my analyst hour.
They always do. You think they'll sit around and watch Amazon chop around while CrowdStrike and the IWM makes 3% moves every day.. I do think the rotation has legs and will probably buy the IGV on Monday. Making me one of those retail dummies lol
IGV puts going crazy
My IGV puts are about to print mad bread
I was looking at AMD for $130-135 puts but also had my eye on IGV $101 puts
Up 19 percent in the last week? Are you serious? Wow. I am in! Short SMH and long IGV. LFG !!!! .......... 
SHORT SMH AND LONG IGV - Short Semi's and Long Software is the PLAY!!!! ............ 
SHORT SMH AND LONG IGV - Short Semi's and Long Software is the PLAY!!!! ............ 
IGV is a software ETF I also hold SMH and IGV (hardware and software)
I used to think theta gang was the path, but have since decided on just DCAing 60% QQQ, 30% SPY, 10% IGV. I miss selling options though
Coconut futures are strong https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai7cl9LQgHM&pp=ygUYeW91IGV4aXN0IGluIHRoZSBjb250ZXh0
Yeah, all of these software stocks are trading together. I also have a decent position in the IGV.
IGV...
> Why do you see the sector getting obliterated though? Because you have large names in software getting obliterated to the point where most of software is being sold with it and some of that is going to be indiscriminate selling. ZS is still up 7%, which isn't bad when the IGV is down 6.5% or so in two days.
cnbc saying it's software nuclear winter. good time to buy IGV for long term.
Got 200 at $50, wish I had bought more. Also bought JPM GS FNF FSKAX IGV at the same time and just holding on to all of them.
If you want to up the risk reward look at Tech ETFs like VGT and MGK. I also like medical device ETF IHI or software ETF IGV.
Your portfolio looks decent. Gold will lower your returns by a bit, but it doesn't lag as much as people think it does. Biotech is extremely volatile and speculative, perhaps more than any other industry, but it is broadly considered undervalued by analysts right now after ages of excessive fearmongering. You also have some AI exposure. Overall, not bad. Personally, I would sell the clean energy stocks and move it to 50-50 $IGM and $IGV.
ETFs... SMH, XLK, WCBR, TRFK, IGV and others.
VGT would be alright, but it is much broader than just AI. LRNZ, THNQ, WTAI, CHAT, AIQ and IGV would have more of a specific AI focus.
To complicate it for you... also consider IYW, which has 138 holdings and is kinda in the middle of the two, but also has the bonus of holding GOOGL and META which the other two do not. Others: XNTK, IGV, SMH and WCBR. I'd especially urge you to take a look at WCBR because none of the others mentioned besides IGV has a decent volume of cybersecurity holdings and I'm pretty certain cybersecurity will be important over the next decades...
SMH, XLK, IGV, URNM, WCBR, SVIX, and the bitcoin ETFs if they ever stop swirling down the toilet.
Yes, and I’m a risky person. I have 15% of my money in Bitcoin, I couldn’t imagine having more than half of my Bitcoin allocation in ETSY. Over 5% in a dating app company. What are we doing here? Just seem like bizarre positions and allocations. I like CRWD. If you want higher exposure to more alternative names I’d recommend FDN, PNQI, VXF, FGRO, and IGV. These are ETFs that have more “fun” names like ones you own here, and will help with more reasonable allocation percentages.
It depends on your circumstances, preferences, risk tolerance, etc... but I wouldn't use SCHD. It doesn't bring much to the table. VOO + XLK (instead of VGT) will give you the S&P500 plus a heavier weight in tech. Personally I prefer XLK, SMH, IGV and WCBR as basic holdings and then several other things to get the other exposure I want.
DCAverage SPY, QQQ,SMH, IGV and you’ll be a millionaire before retirement. Stay disciplined and keep investing regularly
> From the research I've done I think I may be looking for index funds(s)that are a little riskier than the S&P 500 Start by looking at XLK, IYW, IGV, WCBR, SMH
When it briefly hit below 100 today the bots jumped in and started buying and it shot up. Solid company with the enviable problem of "we are working at capacity so that's why we didn't make more money, but we are building more capacity". It has the problem though of being viewed as 20 Century-ish. I don't own it individually but bought some more IGV yesterday to take advantage of the ORCL drop. I wouldn't suggest you make it your biggest holding by any means, but own some seems a good idea.
> What are your thoughts? What are your tipps for me? Start with ETFs then build individual stocks on top of that. SMH (semiconductors), IYW (broad infotech), IGV (tech software) and QTUM (quantum computing). I don't know of a decent biotech one. Buy the industry you have faith in, then go overweight on the companies you believe most in.
I'd bet $200 that PANW outperforms SPY, QQQ, and CIBR the next five years. I wouldn't bet 200k of my 400k on it though. Diversify including getting some XLK and IGV so you still have a decent amount of PANW so you don't feel like total crap if it goes to the moon.
For starters, just go with the other two, but then also monitor other ETFs and stocks to see if you want to have anything else. XLK is an infotech ETF. IGV covers AI leadership software stocks. DXJ covers the Japanese market. SMH is semiconductors. Make yourself a play money portfolio of other things that might interest you, and if ever you decide they earn a place with the other two, go ahead and add them. Same with individual stocks.
No I'm not saying that. Go ahead and buy more of anything you want that you have in your ETF. Just be aware of how much you end up with total. I would guess most of your individual buys should be something you have in your ETFs. Those are the stocks you have shown you are interested in after all with your 40/40 purchase. In both VOO and QQQ's case, they are weighted by market cap. That isn't some magical thing. If you think you want more of AMD than TXN for instance, then buy some more AMD. Likewise, if you want to use some of your 20% on another ETF like IGV or SMH, go ahead. Don't worry that they have duplicated holdings. Just keep in mind how much of each stock you want to have when you make the individual purchases.
Try XLK and IYW along with QQQ for info tech. SMH for semiconductors. Then add IGV for the AI/software... (ADBE/CRM/NOW/CDNS/SNPS/etc). These have been doing best in this year's environment and should also do well when interest rate pressure starts decreasing. For the time being avoid XSD for semiconductors and any other tech ETFs focusing mostly on small caps. They have to borrow money which leaves them at a huge disadvantage these days. These companies will have their day again when borrowing is cheap, but for now the Magnificent 7 and other cash rich companies have a major advantage in both not having to borrow and also just being more willing to spend. Also, maintain a somewhat bigger emergency fund than you think you need. Nothing wrong with getting a 5% risk free return now to combine with the riskier stocks.
I am betting on IGV will outperform the broader market in next 10 yrs time frame. We will see a significant upside in US software industry in coming years
probably should just buy either qqq or voo. why buy aapl+ voo+vug+amzn? no logic no much overlapse. td will under performe spy or qqq, you have enough financial exposure on voo. What i'd do voo ( sp500) qqq ( nasdaq) IGV ( software weighted USA etf) individual pick amzn and msft but at those valuation idk. I'd stick to etf if he doesnt want to manage anything.
Here are some ETFs that have a heavy weighting for SaaS software and cloud software: 1. iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF (IGV): This ETF tracks the performance of software companies and has a significant portion of its portfolio invested in SaaS and cloud software companies. 2. First Trust Cloud Computing ETF (SKYY): This ETF tracks the performance of companies involved in cloud computing technology and has a significant portion of its portfolio invested in SaaS software and cloud software companies. 3. Global X Cloud Computing ETF (CLOU): This ETF invests in companies that provide cloud computing solutions, including SaaS and cloud software companies. 4. WisdomTree Cloud Computing Fund (WCLD): This ETF invests in cloud computing companies, including SaaS software and cloud software companies. 5. Invesco Dynamic Software ETF (PSJ): This ETF invests in software companies and has a significant portion of its portfolio invested in SaaS software and cloud software companies. It's important to note that ETF holdings and weightings can change over time, so it's always a good idea to review the most current information before making investment decisions.
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Or better yet buy slowly into something like QQQ and IGV as we fall again. The way you.make money is to go long and never sell but hold a little cash and buy morr slowly as markets fall. They will rally.again and you'll make more money. As you gain more and more decide to take a little off into cash or if you're young just keep buying. You should be thinking long if you're relatively young. Your only worry should be saving more, staying out of debt, and maybe buying VOO and a little QQQ and NEVER selling till you're an old man.
Do yourself a favor seriously. Just buy VOO every week and never sell. You can dedicate small parts to something like QQQ and IGV etc for some beta. So maybe 70% voo and then 10% igv and 20% igv. I also have 40% cash but if you're fairly young maybe 10% cash for large dips. Not financial advice.
Yes. And tech heavy would do it... Since 2010: IGV is +820% SMH is +753% VGT is +587% QQQ +575% XSW +493% SPY +273% That's just price and ignoring dividends entirely though, and S&P earns higher dividends than tech ETFs -- Realistically SPY is probably more like 450% over those 13 years, and the others a less significant jump.
You can't rely solely on individual candle analysis on the daily timeframe. You need to use multiple points of confluence. You know what I see? I see a major downtrend line that we've rejected off of multiple times. Many are calling this the MOAT - Mother of All Trendlines. I see a major key resistance level and psychological level of SPY $400. I see us around the weekly 55EMA and over the daily 200EMA. Can we hold over these key EMAs? I see us at multiple key resistance levels on a ton of other sectors such as XLE (Energy), XLY (Consumer Discretionary), IGV (Software), XLF (Financials), IWM (Russell 2000), QQQ (Nasdaq). I also notice that we have Options Expirations week this week. You have to look at multiple angles. Find more clues that help you establish a stronger conviction. Where will it go? I don't know, but I plan to be very careful and defensive at these levels and I have plays and plans for either direction and even expect choppy sideways action.
Yeah but don't put everything in spy. Have a diversified portfolio. I'd put some in QQQ, IGV, XLV And maybe 20% in individual names like msft aapl unh asml etc. Also keep about 10% cash. No.bonds until you have at least $200k is my opinion. Never sell anything. Keep buying.
Just buy QQQ and a little IGV. ..... and a little SOXX
I'm down 20% from Ath in November 2021. No biggie. I have a diversified portfolio. 35% cash. Indexes 25%. 20 stocks. Nope no ARKK but it is a good time to start nibbling. I do have QTEC IGV QQQ....
Sold some of my apple stock in my tax free savings. Put in a low bid for $IGV hasnt hit. I expect market to pull back slightly end of day.
How’s anyone else feel about puts on $IGV? It’s got a ridiculously high p/e for an etf and a decently average trading volume. I’m looking at 200 1/20/23 P for 4.00. Idk it’s looking like a pretty solid opportunity to me
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